Mobile robot for retail inventory using RFID
Jian Zhang, Yibo Lyu, Thaddeus A. Roppel, Justin Patton, C. Senthilkumar · 2016
The use of RFID technology is increasing in retail stores, because it improves the performance of automated checkout, inventory and theft detection systems. In this paper, we present a novel implementation of a mobile robot that can perform retail inventory autonomously. The robot can autonomously generate a path to cover all the merchandise within the boundaries of a given store map, and then it can perform the inventory by following the generated path. Experimental results show that our robot can efficiently perform RFID based inventory on a sales floor with complex layout, and provides inventory accuracy that compares favorably to manual inventory.